Seaweed season in Florida: Live webcams show beaches ahead of 2024 Memorial Day weekend
There's only one word a beachgoer would use to describe sargassum seaweed: Bleah!
Raise your hand if you saw a big blob of sargassum seaweed on the beach and avoided it by stepping on hot pointy shells rather than set foot on the springy, crunchy, brown clusters of seaweed.
Should the sargassum seaweed stop you from a beach visit? Definitely not.
Just ahead of the weekend before Memorial Day (Monday, May 24), Florida beaches are still postcard-worthy when it comes to natural wonders, despite the dry brown crusty blobs that have cropped up recently in some parts (see photo galleries below).
We compiled a roundup of live beach webcams and sargassum photo galleries so you can see the Florida seaweed situation for yourself. You may need to refresh this page for livestreams.
What does sargassum seaweed look like in Florida in 2004?
Visuals journalists from TCPalm, Eric Hasert and Crystal Vander Weit, checked out Fort Pierce Beach, Jensen Beach and Stuart beaches along the Treasure Coast in late April. In some cases, the sargassum was already piling up. See the photo gallery above.
It's seaweed season. What did Florida beaches look like Memorial Day 2023 weekend?
What does sargassum seaweed, brown blobs look like at Florida beaches?
Just before summer 2023, Greg Lovett, visuals journalist at the Palm Beach Post, a USA TODAY Network-Florida newspaper, captured stunning shots of a huge sargassum "brown blob" in Palm Beach County via a drone.
Over the years, USA TODAY Network photographers and reported snapped pics of the seaweed situation here. Take a look in the photo gallery above.
Live webcam for Panama City Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for Seascape, Florida
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Live webcam for Clearwater Beach, Florida
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Live webcams for Siesta Key Beach, Florida (Sunset Pier and Midnight Pass)
A webcam hosted by the Siesta Key Beach Resort and Suites YouTube channel shows a beach camera at the Sunset Pier at Siesta Key Beach Access No. 2. Click on this YouTube link to see a livestream for Siesta Key.
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Live webcams for Jacksonville Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for Ormond Beach, Florida
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Live webcams for Deerfield Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for Miramar Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for St. Augustine Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for Dania Beach, Florida
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Live webcam for Hollywood Beach, Florida
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This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Seaweed season: Photos, videos show gross brown blob that is sargassum
